Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-11-18

"Oh | wonder If they are necessary.
Hang it.l A man ought to know every
thing | wonder how long an operation of
this sort takes and how IL can be done
Tell me-; again he addressed Mr.. Brude.
mel. "Who are your Brokers Y'
IL have none. The Bank would do any
business for me If wanted it done.n
"Oh Turn your chair round, and write
one or two letters, now, in your own hand
writing"
He dictated two or three letters. Then
he took the cheque book ont OF the safe
and made his patient sign three blank
cheques.
80" he said, that is accomplished. |
wonder ifanything will happen to prevent
the thing from coming off Why should
anything happen
zone question more" he asked "Do
you know anything of one James Berry ?"
There was a James Berry in my
fathers service. He went into the Com
pany's service afterward. He was in the
Accountants Department"
Has James Berry any shares in the
Company ?"
Yes. He has invested all his savings
in the Company"
"Hump My conjecture was right then,
and Brudenel and Company are going to
smash. Fifteen thousand for Tom, twelve
thousand for,Cicely, and ten thousand for
Sibyl, and all the old man has got is an
estate which can't be Sspd. That's bad
for Tom and Cicely and Sibyl On the
other hand, if the Thing comesloif oh It's
wonderful. Lavinia, owe You II good
turn for this and, somehow, I'll pay You
back, though at present | don't see any
way. And now" he said, putting the
three cheques and the letters very care
fully into his pocket book, "C uless am
very greatly mistaken, here Will be a big
ger coup than anything ever before at
tempted or accomplished by medium,
clairvoyant or occult philosopher. Paul,
my boy, when this thing is nOsed abroad
your head shall touch the skies. And
then, when all the world is talking about
body is expecting something even greater,
and they are prepared for any miracle
you will suddenly vanish, go back to Abys-
snia, or else to the Old place-they can't
think of looi.lng for so great man in the
Old place-and to live forever in the mem.
DRY of men. How to support the rest of
life Well, | don't know That is pro-
blem which must wait. MEANWHILE"
He shook his head rs If there was side
of the question which he did not care to
look at.
Then he sat down and pondered for
whole quarter of an hour. Beside him sat
the figure OF a man who might have been
a corpse, so still and white and silent was
he, SO rigid and So regardless.
as it wort the trouble ~ he asked
himself. "a month or so of glory and
success, with 1.-the people wondering and
staring, and all the scientific men angry
and Disconnected and a thousand pens
set agoinE, and the Spiritualists trium-
phaut at last. Then they will look for
more, and there will be no more, because
cannot expect any more condolences,
and the worker of miracles must retire
II possible, without being seen to go. He
must vanish like a goblin in "a story And
he must never come back again. TO be
seen again would be fatal He must be
never more heard of. Well, | think
know place which is obscure enough
and forgotten enough for anyone to live
unknown and concealed. 1t will be mis-
cradle enough after all | have seen and
done but after all it will not be half so
miserable rs If | had stayed there all the
time, no better off than the obscure folks
who live out their dull and monotonous
lives there, and are buried at last in the
cemetery. | shall at least have the mem.
DRY of the great stir that have made in
the world.
"Chatterton." he we on, walking
backwards and forwards, chad his gift
and he used 1t. Nobody blames him now
for the deceit which he employed He
had his gift | have mine. There is not
man in the world who can do what | can
Not one. They all can mesmerize, but they
cannot make the patient see things far
Off report secrets long since hidden away
hear conversations and repeat them, and
think as | choose them to think | use
my gift in my own way, and for the same
purposes as those OF Chatterton. | want
honor, not money.
"Ne one shall ever say wanted money
came here without asking for any. and
shall go away with clean hands Money ?
Why, what money could repay the ser
vices | shall render this household if the
coup comes off. And suppose that unless
| tell them, NJ one ever will know why
| came or why | did it, or how did it. And
| now for Mr.. James Berry"
He sat down at the table and wrote a
| short letter.
Dear Mrs. Medlock,-
Il have thought over the difficulties
OF your friend and have been enabled to
help him. Tell him to lose no time in
selling out-but TO do so secretly Let him
| tell none of his friends what he has done.
AS you have not told me the name of this
Company it is not possible for me to ad-
wise you more exactly in this matter. Tell
him, however, that he must sell and that
| Immediately
Yours very sincerely. PAULUS.
THAT" he said, sis the first step in the
history OF the great coup"
He looked round the room. The table
was covered with papers which he had
taken from the cafe. These he replaced
carefully.
The drawer of the safe" he said, ire
minds me that the day after tomorrow
| the Indian paper l. 10 ne discovered there.
| | thought ,h1; was rather clever, but the
| new sur prise b-}t, IL hrii0H.n He locked
| up the safe, pUt Lue keys INTO Mr.. Brude.
nel's pocket and arrlnga 1 the table exact
ly as it had been before Inconsistencies
| fell upOu him.
When he was quite satisfied. he bent
over Mr.. Brudeac rs he had bent over the
| heads or the lWl Girls